Acceptance of Terms and Conditions of Use
Your use of the PetStress.com website (http://www.petstress.com) (“the website”) is contingent upon your acceptance of and compliance with the following Terms and Conditions of Use. By using the PetStress.com website you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not access or use any of the PetStress.com website.
The Website does not provide veterinary or medical advice
The Contents of PetStress.com are for informational and educational purposes only. The Content and Website are not intended to be a substitute for professional veterinary or medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your veterinarian with any questions you may have regarding your pet’s medical condition. Never disregard professional veterinary advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on the PetStress.com website.
Liability of PetStress.com and its licensors
The use of the PetStress.com website and its content is at your own risk.
When using the PetStress.com website, information will be transmitted over a medium that may be beyond the control and jurisdiction of PetStress.com and its suppliers. Accordingly, PetStress.com assumes no liability for or relating to the delay, failure, interruption, or corruption of any data or other information transmitted in connection with use of the PetStress.com website.
The PetStress.com website and the content are provided on an “as is” basis. PetStress.com, its licensors, and its suppliers, to the fullest extent permitted by law, disclaim all warranties, either express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, non-infringement of third parties rights, and fitness for particular purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, PetStress.com, its licensors, and its suppliers make no representations or warranties about the following:
- The accuracy, reliability, completeness, currentness, or timeliness of the Content, software, text, graphics, links, or communication provided on or through the use of the PetStress.com website.
- The satisfaction of any government regulations, requiring disclosure of information on prescription drug products or the approval or compliance of any software tools with regard to the Content contained on the PetStress.com website.
In no event shall PetStress.com, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the PetStress.com website be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, personal injury/wrongful death, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use of or inability to use the PetStress.com website or the Content, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not PetStress.com, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the PetStress.com website are advised of the possibility of such damages. PetStress.com, its licensors, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned on the PetStress.com website are not liable for any personal injury, including death, caused by your use or misuse of the Website, any Content, or the Public Areas (including blogs, Question and Answer Postings, Pet Stories, and Pet Photos).
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold PetStress.com, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your violation of these Terms and Conditions.
Submission Policy
You agree not to upload, post or otherwise make available to PetStress.com any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or proprietary right or you must be the sole owner and copyright holder of the material you submit. You agree and acknowledge that you have the burden of determining whether any material is not protected by copyright.
By submitting your material you grant us (or warrant the owner of such material has expressly granted us) the world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it into other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material. You also permit any other user of PetStress.com to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that user’s personal use. You grant PetStress.com the right to edit, copy, publish and distribute any material made available to us by you.
PetStress.com has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of the material submitted to PetStress.com to determine compliance with our Terms of Use and/or to satisfy any law, regulation or government request. PetStress.com has the right in its sole discretion to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted to PetStress.com, including but not limited to, material that is unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, invasive of another’s privacy, potentially harmful to minors, obscene, pornographic, graphic, includes profanity, inflames others or is otherwise objectionable.
Copyright Policy
It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed on PetStress.com, please read the following information for filing or responding to a notice of infringement.
To file a notice of copyright notice with us, please send a written communication by regular mail that sets forth the items specified below. If you are not sure whether certain material of yours is protected by copyright, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.
To expedite our ability to process your request, please use the following format:
- Identify in sufficient detail the copyright material that you believe has been infringed.
- Indentify the material that you claim is infringing the material listed in item #1 above and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled.
- Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit PetStress.com to contact you (email address is preferred).
- Provide information, if possible, sufficient to permit PetStress.com to notify the user(s) who posted the content that allegedly contains infringing material (email address is preferred).
- Include the following statement: “I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted material described above on the allegedly infringing web pages is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.”
- Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.”
- Sign the paper.
- Send the written communication to PetStress.com at Quintet Systems Inc., 1200 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905
The user(s) who posted the content may make a counter notification. When we receive a counter notification, we will forward a copy to the person who filed the original notification and may reinstate the material in question.
To file a counter notification with us, please provide a written communication by regular mail that sets forth the items specified below. If you are not sure whether certain material infringes the copyrights of others, we suggest that you first contact an attorney.
To expedite our ability to process your counter notification, please use the following format:
- Identify in sufficient detail the material that PetStress.com has removed or to which Petstress.com has disabled access.
- Provide your name, address, telephone number, email address, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or Fairfield County, Connecticut if your address is outside of the United States), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification to PetStress.com of the infringement or an agent of such person.
- Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.“
- Sign the paper.
- Send the written communication to PetStress.com at Quintet Systems Inc., 1200 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905.
Linking
These Terms and Conditions apply only to the PetStress.com website. In addition to our own website, we provide links to other third party websites that are not under PetStress.com’s control. PetStress is not responsible for the terms and conditions, privacy practices or the content of any website linked to from the PetStress.com website. You acknowledge that when you leave the website an access a linked site you do so at your own risk and that PetStress.com does not endorse any linked website.
Modifications
PetStress.com and Quintet Systems Inc. reserve the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time by posting such change here. Your continued use of this website after such change is made constitutes acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the Terms and Use as modified.
Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy lets you know how your personal information is processed and used. We promise that we will take steps to use your personal information only in ways that are compatible with this Privacy Policy.
Information is collected from this Web site by the use of forms and other data input fields. All data you submit is voluntary on your part and not required to view our Web site pages.
We have various areas where visitors may post stories, photos, videos, questions and comments. We may use your contact information to send notification to you of products and services by e-mail. Some data such as your email address may be required in order to post your stories, photos, questions and comments.
At times we may use cookies to track users. We respect our user's rights but may be required, for the sake of useful and relevant functionality on our Web site, to store small amounts of data (cookies) on user's computers simply to enhance their experience on our Web site.
We will disclose personal information and/or an IP address, ONLY when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Cooperate with the investigations of purported unlawful activities and conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on PetStress.com,
- Protect and defend the rights or property of our sites and related properties, or visitors to this Web site and related properties,
- Identify persons who may be violating the law.
Throughout our Web site we link to other Web sites. We do not control their privacy policy or terms of use for their website(s).
We do not sell, rent, or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third-party. The information users voluntarily submit is used only for our purposes to contact or send marketing materials and updates related to PetStress.com.
Our website contains many hyperlinks to third party Web sites. PetStress.com and its owners are NOT responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third party Web sites or advertisers. The links are provided as a point of reference, not necessarily an endorsement of the companies or individuals that produce these Web resources and their content.
By using this Web site, you consent to the collection and use of information you voluntarily submit as specified above. We reserve the right to modify this policy. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to info@PetStress.com.
Your use of this Web site is governed by Terms and Conditions of Use.
Copyright Notice
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